366 E. Day — Monograph of Indian Cyprinidce. [No. 4, 



Length of head 2/11, of caudal 1/4* height of body 1/3 of the 

 total length. 



Eyes. Diameter 1/3 of length of head, 3/4 of a diameter from 

 end of snout, 1|- diameters apart. 



Lower jaw slightly the shorter. Dorsal profile much elevated, 

 a slight concavity over the nape. Preorbital of moderate width, 

 the rest of the suborbital ring narrow. 



Teeth, pharyngeal — 4, 3, 2/2, 3, 4, serrated on their edges, the 

 two largest of the anterior row molarforrri. 



Gill rakers rudimentary. 



Fins. Dorsal commences slightly nearer the base of the caudal 

 than the end of the snout, its osseous ray is strong and serrated in 

 its upper two-thirds, the bony portion being as long as the head. Cau- 

 dal deeply lobed, the lower slightly the longest. 



Colours. Silvery, back greyish, and the Indian variety is par- 

 tially banded, more especially in the young. A dark streak from the 

 shoulder to the base of the pectoral fin. 



Hah. The Godavery river, and throughout Burma, but the speci- 

 mens from the latter locality are darker in colour and want the verti- 

 cal bands. It attains 15 inches and more in length. Although Va- 

 lenciennes who described Leuciscus Belangeri, andBleekerand Giin- 

 ther, who have not seen it, have considered this species the type of a 

 genus (Smiliog aster), which is said to have a compressed abdomen, 

 " mais sans aucune dentelure, comme celles des clupees" it appears to 

 me most probable that the typical specimens were badly preserved 

 ones of JRohtee microlepis. 



5. BOHTEE OGILBII. 



Sykes, Trans. Zool. Soc. 1841, p. 64, pi. 63, f. 2. 



Osteobrama Ogilbii, Heckel, in Russ. Keis. i. p. 1033 ; Gunther, Catal. vii, p. 324 



B. III. D.3/8, P. 15, Y. 10, A. 3/13, C. 20, L.1.55,L.tr. 13/11. 



Length of head 1/7, of pectoral 1/7, of caudal 1/1, height of body 

 1/3, of dorsal fin 1/4 of the total length. 



Eyes. Diameter nearly 1/2 of length of head, 1/2 a diameter 

 from end of snout, above 1 diameter apart. 



Dorsal and abdominal profiles about equally convex. Cleft of 



